Those titles should be familiar to those who indulge in strategy games as they are both ports from other systems, but that shouldn't stop the excitement as they are considered to be solid games.

Pirates! is already available on Xbox 360 (since 2005) so you can go ahead and try that now to get an idea for the game. The original Pirates! goes back to 1987 but was re-released and updated in 2004 and it is still getting ported to new platforms (including the iPad). It's your normal sail around the world, engage in battles and grab some booty game.

Civilization Revolution, known as the game Meier's "always wanted to make", is widely available on multiple platforms and continues the Civilization/empire building turn-based-strategy stylings of previous games in the same series.

No word on release dates but we imagine it will be sometime this Spring, giving Windows Phone users plenty of options and some skilled strategy gaming.

Holy crap... That's awesome! I played Pirates! constantly when I was a kid (on c64 and later the amiga). I bought the PC re-release when that came out and have played it heaps too. The same for the Civs... Played them all for ridiculous amounts of time from the very first one! Hopefully the mobile versions will be good :)

They're killing me, Civ on my phone will take away any spare time I would otherwise have around the office. Glad it's Revolution on the phone at least, and not Civ5, because simplified works better on the phone, and Civ5 takes days to play. Hopefully, it'll have multiplayer, like they announced for Carcassone.

"“Pirates!” – Available now on Windows Phone, Sid Meier’s “Pirates!” is an exciting high-seas adventure overflowing with intense pirate action and a treasure chest of gameplay riches! "
It seems to me like Pirates! is going to be available sooner rather than later. I hope that "available now" means today, although I'm probably wrong.